Miles Okazaki - Trickster's Dream (2020) [Hi-Res]

Tracklist:

[3:58] 01. Miles Okazaki - Rise And Shine
[3:29] 02. Miles Okazaki - Seven Sisters
[3:29] 03. Miles Okazaki - Interlude 1: Rising
[6:19] 04. Miles Okazaki - The Lighthouse
[3:34] 05. Miles Okazaki - Anthemoessa
[2:32] 06. Miles Okazaki - Interlude 2: Sustaining
[6:18] 07. Miles Okazaki - Dog Star
[2:32] 08. Miles Okazaki - The Castaway
[2:00] 09. Miles Okazaki - Interlude 3: Dreaming
[5:32] 10. Miles Okazaki - Caduceus

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ABOUT THE ALBUM

This album is an imagined live concert. The band Trickster was supposed to tour the United States and Europe for six weeks in May-June of 2020, and after the pandemic shutdown I was looking for some ways to keep the band "working." The idea of putting out a musical statement took on a new, more urgent meaning as the uprisings over racism in America took center stage. I decided to make an album of what the group might sound like after a couple of weeks on the road playing material from our last album, tempos pushed, forms stretched, risks taken. I sang an imaginary Trickster set, and we played along with it individually to make this performance in Brooklyn, Philadelphia, and Washington, D.C. A few older numbers and some improvised interludes snuck into the set, as they do during gigs. Anthony Tidd worked his magic to mix and master the home recordings. In order to convey some feeling of a live concert, there are accompanying videos for each song, filmed during the taping of the music. After purchase, they can be viewed individually on this page or continuously at the link provided in the bonus download items.

The idea here was to provide something for audiences who might have come out to shows, with an energy that reflects on the state of things, living with the strange combination of forced... more

credits
released July 3, 2020

Miles Okazaki, guitar and compositions
Matt Mitchell, piano
Anthony Tidd, bass
Sean Rickman, drums




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